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Although, the matches against Feyenoord Rotterdam brought great team performance, we need to highlight few heroes of this series. In a very tough second leg on a burning ground of the stadium De Kuip it was, except Igor Šemrinec, our defender James Lawrence.

It was exactly the Englis defender, who substituted our goalkeeper in situations, where already Šeďo couldn’t do anything. „I’m happy that I could help my team. What to add?,“ said modestly after the match 25 years old native from Haley-on-Thames located in the suburbs of London.

He came with a big smile on his face to a mix-zone after the match in Rotterdam. One of the reasons was that his dream came true. That main reason was, that Lawrence played against his childhood star Robin van Persie, whose playstyle he admired when he was a youngster playing in the youth teams of Arsenal. „It is a great feeling to play against a player, who was your childhood idol. Everyone dreams about it. My dream came true. I tried to play without a restrictive respect, there wasn’t any other way. It is different off the pitch. Robin made a great career. „

Lawrence started his 5th season in Trenčín. He has nearly 90 league starts on his account. He feels like home in Trenčín. That is, why defeating Feyenoord was much more for him. „I’m very, very happy. It wasn’t the best performance from us, but we fought and worthily made it to the play-off. We have a great crew in the cabin. We fight one for all,“ said the leader of the team and added: „It could have been a different story. They had a lot of chances in the second match. However, we played very devotedly. Many people say, that Feyenoord is going through crisis. Though, media inflates those news a lot. They have a very good team and we were able to knock them out....“